birthday rollcall

Happy Birthday Jonathan Swift (b.1667), Mark Twain (b.1835) & Abbie Hoffman (b.1936)

#405

seriously. slow your roll.

Strawberry Pot

sunday night is for relaxing

art - yours for $6.72

it's officially "the season" now

it's friday. yessssssssssssssss.

renewable resource - gratitude

"We are all walking around with an amazing resource: gratitude. It helps us express and enjoy, appreciate, be thankful and satisfied with a little effort. We all have it, and we need to use it to improve our quality of life."

- Steven Toepfer, Kent State University

welcome back, rain

positively brilliant

Cosby Show Opening Credits Seasons 1-8

trust them...

it says, "the world is changing"

mingus mellow fantastic

american badass

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (b.1815 d.1902)

3 x 3

looking real good for 35

cleansing by fire

“The feelings right now are difficult to describe. One of the hazards of monasticism throughout the centuries is we become attached to what we have or where we are. This is simply a reminder that what we are called to is not our stuff. This is a cleansing by fire.”

-Brother Brown, Mount Calvary Monastery

Monks Turn to Reflection With Monastery in Ruins from NYTimes.com

heart soaring music

Ray LaMontagne "You Are the Best Thing"

from Gossip in the Grain (2008)

clear enough?

"I promise you this: When I am president, any governor who's willing to promote clean energy will have a partner in the White House. Any company that's willing to invest in clean energy will have an ally in Washington. And any nation that's willing to join the cause of combating climate change will have an ally in the United States of America."

-Barack Obama
to the Governors' Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles
11/18/08

winter fashions 1928-1929

urban gardening

woody is at it again

Movie: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 2008
Song: Barcelona by Giulia & los Tellarini

remember to kick in

smoke on the water

2008 Wildfires
(photo El Porto, Manhattan Beach CA)

Fall & Winter Succulents

YouTube channel GardenGuy06

Hardy Winter Suggestions: Agave, Aeonium, Echevaria Hybrid

line in the sand

modern prophet

Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act? " Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?"

Al Gore
Nobel Prize Acceptance 12/07

song for america

Mmm. Salt.

Salad, a term derived from the Latin sal (salt), which yielded the form salata, 'salted things' such as the raw vegetables eaen in classical times with a dressing of oil, vinegar or salt.

-Oxford Companion to Food

well played, ray

Designed in 1952 by Raymond Stegeman for Bausch & Loam

fight to the death for marriage equality

callibrate your watches, ready, set, GO!

finally today

resort living

dry skin arsenal

gotta get after it

"Never mistake motion for action"

-Ernest Hemingway

when trailers are like short films

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

rabid fans, 1951

a true respect for work

"Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits"

-Studs Terkel (b.1912 d. 2008)

author of Working (1974)

and hello to you, bruce

as good as they say